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- Discover how much time it takes to form a sludge blanket.
- Can a sludge blanket form if the lamella are present? Can the lamella be designed differently so that this is possible?
- What is the best way to drain a sed tank so as to cause the least amount of distrubance and water waste. How often would this need to occur?
- What else could be done to optimize the sed tanks?
- Are the two sed tanks equal? Is the tank turbidity comparable? Are flocs remaining equally intact from the flocculator to the tanks?
Goals
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- Familiarize new members with plant and plant processes
- Get the plant up and running without leaks and problems
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- Design and build new, robust baffle system
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- Install a dose controller to vary alum dosing linearly with plant flow rate
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- Take turbidity profiles of the flocculator under different arrangements, including tapered and non-tapered baffle spacing
- Set up FReTA to be used with the tube flocculator
- Use FReTA to compare settling velocities at different points in the tube flocculator
- Compare raw water readings from the Pilot Plant FReTA with the laboratory results